Friday, September 30, 2016

Yesterday and today I took the Olympia Avenue route from Math Annex. Google Maps says it's 1.9 miles. It includes a steep uphill from Olympia at Nevada to approximately Olympia at Forest way (about 1300 feet or.25 miles. **get elevation change estimate**

Times were comparable to times from CUE, all things considered. I didn't record yesterday's times; today's are in the Walk Times spreadsheet.

What impressed me is that I had little respiratory distress, no bronchial spasm or hacking/spitting. I also did not need a break at all. I think that taking a dose of water plus a salt signal helps the exercise be easier.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Math Annex to Dairy Rd outbound on 15:27, about the same as previous trials. Up to the CUB to run errands in about 11:15. Pretty tired after. The weather was warm, 80+which may have contributed to tiredness.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

I set my timer for 15 minutes at the door of Math Annex and walked east on College, north on Stadium, then east on Grimes toward Airport Rd. I got up to the "Stop" sign at Dairy Rd. before the timer went off. Google says that's 1.0 miles.

My count of paces was 1001 (though there's a delta of maybe 20 paces due to losing count while trying to multi-task counting and arithmetic). I believe my pace is slightly shorter than the Roman pace of 5280 ft / 1000 paces (where the arithmetic came in -- about 63.36 inches) but I haven't stepped off a measured track.

My cadence (in steps) was about 133/min, or 22 per 10 seconds, which is consistent with my subjective evaluation. Upping the cadence to 24 (a lot of work, in my experience) would result in less than 500 additional feet in 15 minutes, but would probably do more for my aerobic conditioning and insulin acceptance.